Edmund zoller



(No Model.)

E. ZOLLER.

BUTTON. I No. 365,894. Patented July 5, 1887.

WITNESSES: IIVVE/VTOR M f Edam/uni i'o'uvr' A TTOR/VEYS N. PEYERs, Mole-Lithographer, Washinglon, n. c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDMUND ZLLER, OF NE\V YORK, N. Y.

B U TTO N SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 365,894, dated July 5, 1887.

Application filed November 4, 1886. Serial No. 217,998. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDMUND ZoLLEn, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Buttons and-Holders for Cuffs and other Articles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to buttons and holders for cuffs, wristbands, and similar articles; and the invention consists in the features set forth in the following specification and elai ms and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 shows the device applied to a wristband and to a cuff. Fig. 2 is a section in the plane :0 00, Fig. 3. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the device. Fig. at is a side elevation of a modification. Fig. 5 is a side elevation of air other modification.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

In the drawings, the letter A indicates a base or support formed of suitable material-- such, for example, as one or more metal plates. The plates may be flat, hollowed, or otherwise shaped, as may be useful or ornamental. In case two or more plates are employed, they are suitably fastenedtogether by solder or other suitable means, so as to form the base A.

To the two opposite sides of the base A are connected swinging, pivoted, or hinged fastening devices composed of arms or buttons B, which can be swung on their pivotal attachment to bring them in line, or substantially so, with a vertical line taken centrally through the base A, Figs. 2, 4, and 5, or be swunglatorally to place them at right angles, or substantially so, to said line.

The fastening devices may be composed of swinging spring-arms B, pivoted to one side of the base A, and a swinging button or disk pivoted to a'post, O, secured. to the other side of the base, as in Fig. 4; or the base A may have oppositely-projecting posts 0, to each of which a swinging button or disk, B, is pivoted, as in Fig. 5. By this arrangement the face of the buttons B may be swung into a plane lying in the direction of the axes of the arms 0, as seen in dotted lines in Fig. 5, so that the buttons B can be readily passed through such openings-as, for example, the buttonholes of a stifflystarehed cuff.

In place of buttons B, the base A may be provided with swinging arms B,in the form of Csprings, pivoted or hinged to the opposite sides of the base, as in Figs. 2 and 3. lVhen it is desired to attach the device-for example, to a euffthe arms or fastenings B B are swung away from the base A, whereby the arms B are caused to lie close together, as seen in Figs. 2 and 3 in full lines, in which posi-- tion they can be readily passed through a button-hole, alter which the arms B are swung so as to lie against or close tothe base A, as seen in dotted lines in Figs. 2 and 3, when they clamp or secure the edges of the button-hole to the base A.

If desired, the base A may be provided on one side with spring arms or levers and on the other side with a fixed or a movable bution. Such arrangement with a movable button is seen in Fig. 4. The device is very use fulfor example, in attaching cuffs to wrist bands. One of the fastenings B can in this case be utilized to grasp the button-holes at opposite edges of a wristband, thus closing the wristband about the wrist. The other fastening B can then be utilized to grasp two but-- ton-holes at opposite edges of a cuff, whereby the end is not only held or fastened to the I carrying an arm, B, and provided at its opposite side with a swinging spring-impelled arm or arms,B,or their described equivalents, adapted to swing into a position substantially parallel to and also at right angles to thc'side of the base, as and for the purposes set forth.

2. A cuff and wristband holder consisting of the base A and the swinging spring-ire In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my pelled arms B, or their described equivalent, hand and seal in the presence of twosubscribpivoted, respectively, to the opposite sides of ing witnesses.

the disk, to swing into positions substantially EDMUND ZOLLER. [L. s] 5 parallel to and also-at right angles to the sides \Vitnesss:

of the base, substantially as shown and de W. HAUFF,

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